We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passio…

Abraham Lincoln
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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. ✨ First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861
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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. ✨ First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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